Can Human Brain Cells Make an Animal Human?

Father Nicanor Austriaco, a molecular biologist and Dominican Catholic priest, joins Trending with Timmerie:
Episode Guide

  • Dark humor everything becomes a joke – nothing is serious (2:15)
  • Scientists are growing human brain tissue and implanting it in animals. Could it become conscious? (24:13)
  • De-Extinction Breakthrough How AI is bringing the extinct Dodo back to life(45:17)

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Lab-grown brain organoids

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03048-5?linkId=63942662

De-Extinction Breakthrough: How AI Just Brought the Dodo 1 Step Closer to Reality

https://www.inc.com/divya-bhardwaj/de-extinction-breakthrough-how-ai-just-brought-the-dodo-1-step-closer-to-reality/91416856

Timmerie works as a radio host and Catholic speaker educating in areas of theology and is an expert at responding to current trends of sexuality, feminism, and gender ideology. She hosts Trending with Timmerie on Relevant Radio. She holds a Masters Degree in Biblical Theology and Bachelor’s Degree in Communications Media with an emphasis in the New Evangelization from John Paul the Great Catholic University.